How to format your references using the International Journal of Solids and Structures citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Solids and Structures. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Ekeland, I., I., 2000. Mathematics. Curves and numbers. Nature 405, 748–749.

A journal article with 2 authors

Munk, M.R., Rückert, R., 2015. To work or not shouldn’t be a question. Science 348, 470.

A journal article with 3 authors

Galbraith, C.G., Yamada, K.M., Galbraith, J.A., 2007. Polymerizing actin fibers position integrins primed to probe for adhesion sites. Science 315, 992–995.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Eldred, K.C., Hadyniak, S.E., Hussey, K.A., Brenerman, B., Zhang, P.-W., Chamling, X., Sluch, V.M., Welsbie, D.S., Hattar, S., Taylor, J., Wahlin, K., Zack, D.J., Johnston, R.J., Jr, 2018. Thyroid hormone signaling specifies cone subtypes in human retinal organoids. Science 362.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Mindham, C.N., 2008. Roof Construction and Loft Conversion. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Benhabib, S., Kaul, V. (Eds.), 2016. Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics, Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Aral, A., Gupta, V., Agarwal, R.P., 2013. q-Summation–Integral Operators, in: Gupta, V., Agarwal, R.P. (Eds.), Applications of Q-Calculus in Operator Theory. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 145–194.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Journal of Solids and Structures.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Milky Way Arm Containing Our Solar System May Be Bigger Than We Thought [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/milky-way-arm-containing-our-solar-system-may-be-bigger-than-we-thought/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1968. Research and Development--and the Congress (No. 091220). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Horta, G., 2013. The potential of the Eurozone crisis to mobilize extreme right support in Spain, Portugal, and Italy (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Barron, J., 2016. Bar Cars Are Coming Back, but Don’t Expect a Seat. New York Times A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ekeland, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Ekeland, 2000; Munk and Rückert, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Munk and Rückert, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Eldred et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Solids and Structures
Abbreviation	Int. J. Solids Struct.
ISSN (print)	0020-7683
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Condensed Matter Physics